The oldies here may be quite familiar with this VOA, many youngsters may not. The VOA is the Voice of America, the official propaganda machine of the Americans against Communism and enemies of the American Empire. The VOA was most active during the Cold War, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. VOA is synonymous with CIA and all the American covert operations against the Soviet bloc and China. It is an American mouthpiece.
It is a big shock for the Trump Administration to lash at this mouthpiece. Did Trump take the wrong drug and think VOA is a Chinese network? This is really unimaginable! No American media can say anything good about China even if it is a fact, a known fact to the whole world. This is how the American propaganda machinery works. They only tell lies, untruth and disinformation to the world. Maybe the VOA is now infiltrated with Chinese agents. What a joke. This reveals how sensitive and desperate the Trump Administration is in this losing war against the Covid19.
Here is what SCMP reported of this piece of bizarre news.
The
White House has lashed out at broadcaster Voice of America (VOA),
accusing the broadcaster of amplifying “Beijing’s propaganda” by quoting
China’s official coronavirus statistics in its reporting and publishing
footage of celebrations marking the end of Wuhan’s lockdown.
The
extraordinary attack on a government-funded news outlet came as the
Trump administration and some lawmakers have intensified their criticism
on how the Chinese government handled the outbreak.
“VOA
too often speaks for America’s adversaries – not its citizens,” said
the White House in a Thursday missive, adding that the outlet, which is
funded through congressional appropriations, was “promoting propaganda”
with taxpayers’ money.
“This
week, VOA called China’s Wuhan lockdown a successful ‘model’ copied by
much of the world – and then tweeted out video of the Communist
government’s celebratory light show marking the quarantine’s alleged
end,” the release said.
The
story that the White House appeared to be referencing was an Associated
Press article that the VOA had syndicated on Tuesday, not a
staff-written story.
“Even
worse, while much of the US media takes its lead from China, VOA went
one step further,” the White House’s Thursday missive continued. “It
created graphics with Communist government statistics to compare China’s
Coronavirus death toll to America’s.”
